Katong Park Hotel

Every room came with an attached bathroom, a verandah and a "magnificent view of Katong Park and the sea".

The rooftop garden was converted into a dance floor shortly after the hotel's opening and facilities of open-air dining were installed.

There was a miniature rock garden with an orchestra stationed in front of it, as well as fake coconut trees.

[5] By 1962, the then-seven-storey hotel had 170 rooms, a coffee house, a cocktail lounge, a restaurant and a nightclub.

[7] By February 1984, the hotel's lobby featured polished marble flooring and walls of onyx.

The "huge" restaurant overlooking the park and bungalows below was then, according to Natalin Ling of The Straits Times, "very well preserved, with no signs of decay".

Its manager then was Lim Jit Fong of Ipoh, one of the partners, while Miss L. Warren served as supervisor.

Works on the rooftop garden were then underway, with management claiming that it would "become one of the most popular night spots in Singapore.

This included the changing of furniture and bathroom fittings, as well as the redecorating of the interior of the guest rooms.

Its manager then was Tilly Howard while former beauty queen Marion Willis was employed as a receptionist.

[14] On 24 September, the first of approximately 37 bomb attacks in Singapore as part of Konfrontasi occurred at the hotel.

[25] By July, it was one of the last 13 buildings to have been classified by the Ministry of National Development as "energy-guzzling" and one of the last two in Katong, along with the Tay Buan Guan Supermarket.

Guest rooms were fitted with new carpets, onyx walls were installed in the interior, the tiles of the swimming pool were replaced and the Duke Lounge and coffee house were extended.

Ling then wrote a generally positive review of the restaurant, praising the quality and cost of the food.

The hotel's manager, Mohan Anda, claimed that there were already plans to install glazed windows in guest rooms, which would "bring the overall thermal transfer value (OTTV) down to acceptable limits".

[28] In October of the following year, some of the hotel's staff were retrenched as a result of occupancy rates falling to an average of 65 per cent.

[33] In April 1991, The Straits Times reported that there were many visible cracks in the building, with some measuring 3cm in width.

The Building Control Division claimed that while it had ordered the hotel's management to carry out "remedial work" on the structure, it was not in "imminent danger" of collapse.

The hotel was then undergoing renovation works which then-manager Joseph Yeo claimed to be for the "upgrading of the rooms."

[34] In September, the hotel began offering free dancing lessons from Tuesdays to Thursdays due to a decline in patronage for the ballroom.

Teo claimed that he had put the property up for sale in order to focus on managing the Cockpit Hotel.

[36] The new owners then submitted plans to demolish the building to make way for a 22-storey four-star hotel with 288 rooms to the authorities.

[9] In 1997, permission was obtained for a new 16-storey extension which would encompass a built-up area 4.2 times that of the original site.

[40] Kalpana Rashiwala of The Business Times then described it as "one of the oldest hotel sites in Singapore" and as a "landmark" of the Katong area.

In January 1999, it was announced that the Central Provident Fund Board had requested that the High Court of Singapore declare the hotel insolvent to pay off the Tan family's debts of around $141,000 to the board as they had failed to pay their CPF contributions from November 1997 to May 1998.

[42] In June, the hotel was again put up for sale, with the owners seeking around $45 million for the property.

[44] In July, it was announced that the First Capital Corporation had successfully acquired the hotel for $42 million to redevelop the site into a residential development.

[45] The hotel was then demolished to make way for The View @ Meyer, a condominium complex launched by GuocoLand in 2007.